more Pizza Man info-closer to what I had read prior to all the auction posts internetwide. see
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c1-and-c2-corvettes/2800222-one-very-quick-54-corvette.html and read posts numbered 1,3,6,14,16,17,(especially 20),22,24,27,29,and33.
apparently when the car was wearing # 301 it was a .060 292 tall deck late motor. this would be a .060" over 292 (when figured by pencil in earlier '60s--old bored out .125 283s were 4"x3" and figured to be 301s-not 302s as they are now referred to thanks to handheld calculators with many,many pi decimal places)
Whew! 9300 rpms-no wonder they scattered a bunch of motors! The red GMC motor shown in the mecum pictures must have been from an earlier time frame. GMC also used the tall block 292s and may also be fuel for the engine mystery. I do not think the old GMC stuff could have run that car in the low 12s and high 11s.
I hope this will clarify a few points. Now any news about the Apricot Brandy car?
